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Obama's Iran Deal: Someday the World Will Cry, "Why?!"
Townhall.com ^ | April 9, 2015 | Larry Elder

Posted on 04/09/2015 5:37:25 AM PDT by Kaslin

Barack Obama is a young man. By the time he leaves office, he will be in his mid-50s. Based on life expectancy, he could live for another 40 years or so. So he will be around to see the full consequences of his disastrous Iran nuclear "framework."

The deal is done.

No matter what Republicans do, Europeans fully intend to let sanctions expire. They just needed an excuse to do so, an excuse that Obama provided. Someday, nations will ask why the world's superpower ignored chants of "death to America" and "death to Israel" and allowed Iran to slow-walk toward getting nuclear weapons.

A little recent history. Under the watchful eye of the International Atomic Energy Agency, North Korea became a nuclear power -- despite having signed a nuclear non-proliferation treaty. For 25 years, as it developed its nuclear bomb, North Korea insisted it had no such plans. Then-President Clinton dispatched former President Jimmy Carter to dissuade the North Koreans. Carter was convinced of North Korea's sincerity. Carter said: "The world in 1994 was marching toward a war that was neither wanted nor necessary. ... I hoped that Kim Il-Sung was looking for a way to resolve the crisis peacefully. ... My expectations proved to be correct. Kim Il-Sung wanted to deal, and he and I negotiated an agreement."

Carter triumphantly announced on CNN the terms of the deal he brokered to get North Korea, he said, that got them to end their nuclear program. North Korea took the economic assistance -- and continued its nuclear program. Shortly after Carter's visit, North Korea became an acknowledged nuclear power. These "successful" talks led, in part, to Carter's receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Unfortunately, days after the announcement of Carter's Peace Prize, North Korea publicly admitted that it never ended its nuclear program -- and that the country intended to continue it.

Obama, as a candidate, called a nuclear-armed Iran "unacceptable." Well, was anyone listening when National Intelligence Director James Clapper said Iran could make nuclear weapons "right now"? "It's a political decision for them," Clapper said to PBS's Charlie Rose, "not that they don't have the technical wherewithal, the technical competence, because they do." Clapper said Iran's supreme leader simply has not made the "political decision" to make the weapon!

Immediately after the announced framework, Iran disputed the White House's characterization on major issues. No, said Iran, the sanctions are to be lifted right away. No, said Iran, we are not rolling back any of our nuclear facilities. And no, said Iran, we have not consented to "no notice" inspections, the only way to give real assurance that Iran won't cheat as easily as it has already.

Military experts say it's too late for Israel to take military action. Iran is now too far gone, too prepared, having dispersed sleeper cells to strike on cue. At least one of Iran's nuclear facilities is underground and difficult to bomb. Why the need for an underground facility if it is for "peaceful purposes"?

The world will someday ask how a nation that funded and founded the terror group Hezbollah could be allowed to get a bomb. The leader of Hezbollah stated that he hopes all the Jews do return to Israel -- that way they can be eliminated in one fell swoop. So much for the notion that the problem in the Middle East is Israel. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah wants to hunt down and kill Jews outside of Israel.

Days after last week's "historic" nuclear deal, CBS reported that in Iranian mosques, worshipers still chanted "death to America." But, CBS hopefully tells us, they're doing this out of "more habit than conviction." Iran has lied from the beginning, has always lied and is lying now. If, after all, this deal is about inspiring confidence, why wasn't the recognition of Israel -- as a Jewish state -- a nonnegotiable part of the deal? But Obama dismissed it out of hand: "The notion ... (of) Iran recognizing Israel ... is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment."

Finally, what makes Obama and the Democrats believe that ISIS, al-Qaida and the assorted related groups have only regional aspirations? The goal of jihad, as stated by the current head of al-Qaida, is to eventually ignite a battle between the West and the Muslim world. And, at the climactic moment, Allah is expected to appear and shift the balance of victory to the Muslim warriors.

Sound crazy? Insane? This is exactly why such people should never acquire nuclear weapons. Obama will someday have to answer the question, "How could you allow that to happen?"

I hope and pray that I am wrong.


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: barack0bama; foreignpolicy; iran; nucleardeal; obama
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1 posted on 04/09/2015 5:37:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Bond (American people): "Do you expect the Pentagon, the CIA, and DIA to save me?"
Auric Baraq al Qaeda-Obama: "No, I expect you to DIE, dhimmi."

2 posted on 04/09/2015 5:39:28 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Kaslin
"Someday"??? You mean like *Yesterday*?
3 posted on 04/09/2015 5:42:45 AM PDT by shibumi ("Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way")
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To: Kaslin

Unfortunately the American people, who elected Obama twice, are war weary, are susceptible to his faulty arguments and will pay a very heavy price for ignorance and allowing themselves to embrace feel good delusions.


4 posted on 04/09/2015 5:44:00 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Kaslin

This deal, if signed will never make it to fruition.
Israel will that care of business long before the 10 year cycle.


5 posted on 04/09/2015 5:52:58 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Kaslin

When a Western metropolis is a smoking, radioactive ruin, some will ask why. But the media and any remaining obama sycophants will blame Bush.


6 posted on 04/09/2015 5:56:58 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: Kaslin

Because someone’s infiltration operation succeeded beyond their wildest dreams; they managed to buy the Office of the President and put their agent and his handlers in the White House.


7 posted on 04/09/2015 6:01:10 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Kaslin

8 posted on 04/09/2015 6:01:47 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

I say no.


9 posted on 04/09/2015 6:03:07 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Kaslin

Obam is right that this deal with Iran will be his legacy. But it won’t be the good legacy he thinks it will be.


10 posted on 04/09/2015 6:05:24 AM PDT by ryan71 (Bibles, Beans and Bullets)
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To: Kaslin
Obama will someday have to answer the question, "How could you allow that to happen?"

The Caliph will never have to answer any question he doesn't choose to answer. However, we'll all know the answer. Iran will go nuclear because he wanted Iran to be able to go nuclear. Simple as that.

11 posted on 04/09/2015 6:09:17 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Politics is downstream from culture." -- Andrew Breitbart)
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To: Kaslin

Neville Chamberlain saw the start of WW-II as a result of his appeasement. Let us pray we do not see the start of another world war as the result of Obama’s. Sadly I see Obama and Kerry may have just lit the fuse for WW-III in the Middle East and this time the war will be nuclear.


12 posted on 04/09/2015 6:09:43 AM PDT by The Great RJ (Pants up...Don't loot!)
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To: Vinnie

BINGO!

These iranian RUBES who expect Israel to lie down... roll over and play dead.. are at the very farthest reaches of DELUSIONAL THINKING!!

They don’t need to advertise...the fact that they will use ALL Means Necessary to ensure their survival..even as the MEDIA...is writing off their future!

Obie has vastly underestimated Israel as have the Stinking Mullahs


13 posted on 04/09/2015 6:11:26 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Diogenesis

That must be a scene from Goldfinger, the first Bond movie I ever seen


14 posted on 04/09/2015 6:14:04 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: allendale

When you say the American people, it sounds like if he was elected in a landslide. That is far from the truth.


15 posted on 04/09/2015 6:16:45 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

The answer to the question “why?” is simple:

Nobody will stop Iran from obtaining nukes without using military force, and nobody has the stomach for another war in the middle east.

It’s convenient that we can blame this bad deal on Obama, but frankly, nobody on the right was ever going to push for attacking Iran to stop them. At best, we might have told Israel we would turn a blind eye if they attacked and just hoped they would be successful.


16 posted on 04/09/2015 6:55:10 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Kaslin

Barack Insane 0bama has delusions of adequacy.


17 posted on 04/09/2015 7:13:00 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: Vinnie

obama is hoping to live to see Israel destroyed.


18 posted on 04/09/2015 7:16:17 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Kaslin

When you say the American people, it sounds like if he was elected in a landslide. That is far from the truth.
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...a landslide of illegal voters he had paid to vote twice....


19 posted on 04/09/2015 7:51:31 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Get the USA out of the UN then get the UN out of the USA; send bamaboy back to Kenya ASAP!!!!)
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To: minnesota_bound

That ain’t gonna happen. Zer0 will never see Israel destroyed.


20 posted on 04/09/2015 8:04:36 AM PDT by Vinnie
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